Fastest way to convert video files?

August 29th, 2013

Normally when I want to convert an episode of a TV show or a movie to another format, I just use an application like Total Video Converter and enjoy my video later in the day, but today I’m facing a problem:
I bought a DVD player with a USB port so I can enjoy videos from my computer.. however I realized that it doesn’t read DIVX/XVID videos so I would have to convert about 100+GB of videos to another format. Converting it with TVC would literally take weeks, anyone has an idea of what I could do?

Answer #1
Buy a WDTV.
Answer #2
Buy a DVD player that works!! Or, as mentioned, a Media Player..
I am very surprised that a DVD player with USB does not play Divx/Xvid files in the .avi container..
Answer #3
Yeah I thought it was pretty dumb as well, shouldnt have gone with the cheaper kind
I’ll look into returning it and exchanging it hoping it’ll work out, I threw the box away
Never heard of a WDTV ill look into that too
Answer #4
Xeghan replied: Yeah I thought it was pretty dumb as well, shouldnt have gone with the cheaper kind
I'll look into returning it and exchanging it hoping it'll work out, I threw the box away
Never heard of a WDTV ill look into that too

Look into something better than the WDTV if your going the media player route as it’s a bit limited, old and outdated. They won’t pay for licenses for audio such as DTS.
More recent chipsets such as the new Realtek can play just about anything available including 1080p with very high numbers of reference frames. Some have USB 3.0 for fast transfers from PC’s.

http://www.iboum.com/net-media-players.php?sort=sortadddate&chip=real6&pfilt=&hdd=&net=&fan=&lcd=&esata=&dts=&dtsp=&dolbt=&dolbtp=&dtsma=&dtsmap=&year=&ppp=40&bd=&dvd=&netflix=&dvbt=&dweb=&3D=&multi=&stream=&sparam=&ikey=&pg=1&rp=creal6

Answer #5
Mighty_Marvel replied: Xeghan replied: Yeah I thought it was pretty dumb as well, shouldnt have gone with the cheaper kind
I'll look into returning it and exchanging it hoping it'll work out, I threw the box away
Never heard of a WDTV ill look into that too

Look into something better than the WDTV if your going the media player route as it's a bit limited, old and outdated. They won't pay for licenses for audio such as DTS.
More recent chipsets such as the new Realtek can play just about anything available including 1080p with very high numbers of reference frames. Some have USB 3.0 for fast transfers from PC's.

http://www.iboum.com/net-media-players.php?sort=sortadddate&chip=real6&pfilt=&hdd=&net=&fan=&lcd=&esata=&dts=&dtsp=&dolbt=&dolbtp=&dtsma=&dtsmap=&year=&ppp=40&bd=&dvd=&netflix=&dvbt=&dweb=&3D=&multi=&stream=&sparam=&ikey=&pg=1&rp=creal6

http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=320
WD replied: File Formats Supported
Video - AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG1/2/4), MPG/MPEG, VOB, MKV (h.264, x.264, AVC, MPEG1/2/4, VC-1), TS/TP/M2T (MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC-1), MP4/MOV (MPEG4, h.264), M2TS, WMV9, FLV (h.264)
Photo - JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG
Audio - MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, AIF/AIFF, OGG, Dolby Digital, DTS
Playlist - PLS, M3U, WPL
Subtitle - SRT, ASS, SSA, SUB, SMI

Answer #6
I wouldn’t buy WD, I have managed to play some files on my Sumvision media players that WD Media players won’t.
Answer #7
I was just editing my post when you jumped in and quoted it so didn’t bother as it was very late.
I only stated that DTS was not supported whereas I should of posted the exact type as in truth they do support some types of DTS audio. The WDTV Live doesn’t support DTS-HD HR, DTS-HD MA passthrough for Blu Ray ISO’s with the better audio support or Dolby TrueHD Downmixing. The Live 2011 doesn’t support the newer Hi Def DTS-HD MA pass through so Bluray ISO’s with MA can only be played in Stereo and down mixing is also not supported on other recent WD players. Other players other than the Live 2011 do not support DTS-HD HR pass through either.
Past WD players such as WD TV HD Media Player & WD TV Mini Media Player do not even support the older DVD style DTS audio. So not much has changed at WD, they still don’t support DTS audio formats that are widely supported by other manufacturers and they are very slow to support audio formats in general. For the newer players WD must of got their hand out of their tight pockets because they do support more audio with each new media player generation, probably because they are so widely supported by other manufacturers and they realised that they would lose too many sales if they don’t pay up and support it.
Therefore people are still better off getting media players by other manufacturer’s if they want more wider audio support.
That’s before you start with Realmedia files, which most WD players don’t support but that is more chipset related.
You may of realised by now that I am not a big fan of WD in general. Their support sucks badly, I have recent personal experience of it with how much they mess people around and their warranties are poorly supported. Their hard drives are generally quite poor in comparison with other manufacturers and to top it all off they are supposed to be buying the Hitachi hdd business, the pile of crap that that is. Hitachi must be glad to get rid of it.
the Meerkat replied: I wouldn't buy WD, I have managed to play some files on my Sumvision media players that WD Media players won't.
Too right m8, your better off with what you have than a WD. Almost anyone would be.

 

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